Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-11-24

gan avenue, Detroit, burned while they
were at the opera house the other night,
and their nine-months cd baby persisted
in the flames.
Mrs. Heman Thomas, a resident of Ea-
gle township, Clinton county, since 1884,
died few days ago.
Two miners were hurled from the top
of the shaft house In the Anvil mine at
Bessemer, TO the bottom of the shaft, and
instantly killed.
Alec BILLIARD is in Jail at Bay City for
counter cit ne money.
A gas pipe bomb was found I'm the
Reed City Clarion Office the other morning.
'Ren" Barker says he has seen larger
ones before.
A company, with capital of $50, 00),
has been organized at Jackson to manu-
facture gig saddles.
Walter +. Edwards, formerly an enter
prising young newspaper man of Lansing,
is now playing Caius Claudlus to Fred
Warde's Virginius, in Brooklyn. and the
Brooklyn papers speak very highly of his
work.
At a meeting of the Michigan single
manufacturers association in Grand Rap
ids, reports showed but IL 900 0 shin
giles on hand. Prices were advanced five
cents on NNXX and clears, while butts
were dropped ten cents.
Capt. A. II. Mills of Detroit shot and
killed Mrs. Austin Rising, and an hour
later sent bullet crashing through his
own brain. Financial and family difficult
ties had produced temporary insanity, and
while I'm this condition the captain com
mitted the terrible crime.
A new swindle. A very Eentemanly
appearing fellow stops at farm house,
carrying a basket of eggs, which he sells
at $3.50 do EN-. bonding himself at
the same time to pay S. a II air for all the
chickens the customer hens can hatch
from them. A the eggs have had the
stufiing boiled out of 'em, the chickens
don't come fast enough TO bother the
fakir much.
f. A. Card of Ohio, gets $500 from
! the G. II. N /. railroad company tor the
loss of both his legs on that line. Buck
eye legs are not - very expensive.
Adrian claims a man who has been in
actual service as II fireman more years
continuously Il an any olher person con-
nected with ANY de. artment in Michigan.
| Irving A. Aidrch ,Odcluded his 4lst year
of service on May 25 last.
The shingle mill, of lIargrave & Co. of
! Bay City were destroyed by fire the other
day. Loss 10, 000
Dominic Massuto fell go feet down the
Hecla shat, of he Calumet x llecla mine
the other morning and was instantly
killed. lie leaves large family in desti-
tute Circumstance
Isabella county voters will decide the
| local option question, December -.
The CuShi"an telephone people are
working up an exchange at Coldwater,
because the Fell company has fallen some
what into disfavOr there.
A relel flag. so feet long has been UNI
eathed at Elk Hapids, where it had lain
In garrett 70" ; years. 1t vas captured
from the Confede' ate cruiser Nashville.
The Mackinac division of the Mich gan
Genital lad an accident the other after
pon, near Beaver Lake. A passenger
taain smashed into log train, grinding
an engine, baggage car and smoker and
four I at cars into very small pieces. No
| one was hurt.
The Sheldon d Shafer mine, in the
Crystal Falls region, has been sold to a
syndicate of Cincinnati capitalists, who will
assume control of the property shortly.
| The prOpe. ~ is a very valuable one, but
| for some cause or o,her unknown to out
siders has been idle greater part Of the
season.
The state railroad consolidation board
approved the articles Of consolidation of
the In lana IL southwestern and the Stur
| gis IL state Line railways. and also APP
proved the maps of the locations of several
logging roads.
George ii. Jacks, deputy United States
marshall. and eX-deputy sheriff at Muske-
gon. has been arrested ON a, charge Of
burglary.
The Mercy hospital at Big Rapids is to
he enlarged.
A deaf and dumb man named Lang was
murderouSly assaulted near Cheboygan
the other night lis body badly cut and
bruised, particularly about the head. was
discovered on the railroad track. Suspi-
cion pointed to one Stevenson and Joe
Bodwin. who were traced by the Off ers
to an improper house. Stevenson was
found in a beasty srate of intoxication
Both men were arrested and locked up to
await examination. 1t is thought that
these men robbed Lang after assaulting
him and then placed his body on the rail
road ira, k To conceal their line. They
had spent money freely at the house
where they were arrested. Lang is re-
ported to have intimated that Stevenson
made the attack upon him. The man is
very low and his recovery Is impossible.
Upper peninsula advices say that the
NJ, II. Il O. railroad company will send a
power nj lobby to Washington to secure a
reversal Of the decision which threw thell
old land grant on the lists of open lands
The homesteader' who went in on the
lands are banded together for their home:
and firesides, and will give the moribunt
land grant company all it wants in the
way of fight.